Goose
[guːs] or [ɡus]
Definition
(noun.) web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks.
(noun.) flesh of a goose (domestic or wild).
(verb.) give a spurt of fuel to; 'goose the car'.
(verb.) prod into action.
(verb.) pinch in the buttocks; 'he goosed the unsuspecting girl'.
Typist: Michael--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
(n.) Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
(n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
(n.) A silly creature; a simpleton.
(n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
Inputed by Huntington
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Tailor's smoothing iron.[2]. Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.
Checked by Abram
Definition
n. (pl. Geese) a web-footed animal like a duck but larger and stronger: a tailor's smoothing-iron from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose: a stupid silly person: a game of chance once common in England in which the players moved counters forward from one compartment on a board to another the right to a double move being secured when the card bearing the picture of a goose was reached.—v.t. (slang) to hiss off the stage.—ns. Goose′-cap a silly person; Goose′-corn a coarse rush; Goose′-egg a zero denoting a miss or failure to score at an athletic or other contest; Goose′-fish a common name in America for the angler-fish (see Angler); Goose′-flesh a puckered condition of the skin like that of a plucked goose through cold fear &c.; Goose′-foot pigweed; Goose′-grass a species of Bedstraw (q.v.) a common weed in hedges and bushy places in Britain Europe and America; Goose′-neck an iron swivel forming the fastening between a boom and a mast: a bent pipe or tube with a swivel-joint; Goose′-quill one of the quills or large wing-feathers of a goose used as pens; Goos′ery a place for keeping geese: stupidity; Goose′-skin a kind of thin soft leather; Goose′-step (mil.) the marking of time by raising the feet alternately without making progress; Goose′-wing one of the clews or lower corners of a ship's mainsail or foresail when the middle part is furled or tied up to the yard.—adj. Goose′-winged having only one clew set: in fore-and-aft rigged vessels having the mainsail on one side and the foresail on the other so as to sail wing-and-wing.—n. Goos′ey a goose: a blockhead.
Typed by Belinda
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These by some occult process of nature are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an 'author there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.
Typed by Arlene
Examples
- No; Justinian is too keen a judge of character to mistake our Greek goose for a swan. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his wife. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Why, my darling, said I, what a goose you must take me for! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There are other species of geese, as I hear from Mr. Bartlett, in which the lamellae are less developed than in the common goose. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It's the plague of my life and I was a goose to wear it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Now, then: 'Found at the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, you're not geese, you're swans--anything you like, only do, do leave Miss Sedley alone. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There are other species of geese, as I hear from Mr. Bartlett, in which the lamellae are less developed than in the common goose. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I should like to know who sold you the geese which you supplied to the Alpha. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He steered his geese with that stick as easily as another man would steer a yawl. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Now then, Mr. Cocksure, said the salesman, I thought that I was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is still one left in my shop. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Why has he been—so very much—Goosed? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He has lately got in the way of being always goosed, and he can't stand it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He was goosed last night, he was goosed the night before last, he was goosed to-day. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Now, it's a remarkable fact, sir, that it cut that man deeper, to know that his daughter knew of his being goosed, than to go through with it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
Typist: Steven